Unit 5: From Isolation to World War

belief that a nation should get involved in world affairs

• interventionist

• isolationist

• environmentalist

• globalization

British and American statement of goals for fighting World War II

• Atlantic Charter

• Potsdam Conference

• European Union

• League of Nations

Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group

• internment

• isolationism

• interventionist

• inprisonment

Gathering resources and preparing for war

• mobilization

• draft

• rationing

• internment

forced outside the main group

• marginalized

• minority

• mediocre

• sanctions

placing limits on certain products or resources during wartime

• rationing

• ratios

• distribution

• mobilization

the way in which something is shared out among a group

• distribution

• allotment

• Lend-Lease Act

• assetts

an extremely powerful nation

• superpower

• militaristic

• interventionist

• appeaser

period of time when competing nations developed nuclear weapons

• Nuclear Age

• Super Powers

• Soviet Union

• Atlantic Charter

The laws passed by the U.S. allowing aid to nations at war with the Axis Powers

• Lend-Lease Act

• Neutrality Act

• Nuclear Age

• Internment